Ways & Means repeals key ObamaCare provisions

Published 4:40 pm, Tuesday, February 4, 2014

By U. S. Rep. Kevin Brady

Tuesday, the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee moved forward with a bill to restore the 40 hour work week as the American definition of full-time.

“We need to preserve the 40-hour workweek in America and end the Affordable Care Act’s war on workers,” said U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady who leads the Health Subcommittee. “The President’s health care law changes the American work week in a way that hurts the income of workers and discourages new hiring by local businesses. It is destroying jobs and opportunities and is especially hard on less skilled workers.”

Tuesday, the full House Ways & Means Committee approved two bills, the Save American Workers Act and the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act.

On the second measure that exempts police, volunteer fire and EMS workers from being counted toward the ACA mandates, Brady commented “volunteer and part-time community firefighters want to protect our families, not be legislated out of the public service jobs they love.”

As businesses call for an end to the 30-hour rule, labeling it a major obstacle to job creation, the Congressional Budget Office announced today that they expect over 2 million jobs to be lost to ObamaCare.

“Sadly, the job loss predicted from this terrible law will hit low wage workers the hardest,” added Brady. “Washington should be removing obstacles to success, instead of creating legislation and red tape that kills jobs and convinces Americans to give up trying to work.”